When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I was African-American. It seems we're on a rol….

I think now, with our technology, our capacity to grow food, our ability to stop raping the Earth and destroying the ecology and killing off fellow c….

In my earliest of years, my mother was a huge force in my life. She was for all intents and purposes, a single parent. My father had abandoned us. He….

The USA has more people in prison that any other country, including countries with much larger populations. 13% of the population is black but 80% of….

If I've impacted on one heart, one mind, one soul, and brought to that individual a greater truth than that individual came into a relationship with ….

We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty, hunger, disease, and devastation.….

I not only think that they (U.S. leaders) are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing and I think that they are men who are poss….

Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression..

More than once my mother would point out: "Harry Belafonte is the best-looking man on the planet.".

You can cage the singer but not the song..

I like Colin Powell, I like his West Indian background, I like his intellect, I like a lot of things that he does and his style. What is at fault her….

No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds, not ….

Through electing officials that will protect the Constitution and commit themselves to the rights of the people and the health of the nation, we will….

In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly from the bodies of our black children..

I didn't like The Wiz and it wasn't because black people were doing it. I didn't like The Wiz because it was a badly made movie off a classic. Why ar….

As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on..

Carmen Jones was the first all-Negro film that became a great box-office success. It established the fact that pictures with Negro artists, pictures ….

When I went to Japan I sang in Japanese; when I went to Greece I sang in Greek. When I went to Spain, I sang in Spanish. I couldn't speak it very wel….

When I go across the country, whether it's Albuquerque, New Mexico, whether it's Birmingham, Alabama or Milwaukee, Wisconsin, there are always forces….

These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for….

There's an old saying in the days of slavery, there are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived in the house.….